Intra-day rolling scheduling method for integrated heat and electricity system

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Solution Overview

Problem

The integrated heat and electricity system faces challenges in intra-day rolling scheduling due to the complexity introduced by coupling components like combined heat and power units, heat pumps, and circulating pumps, which require comprehensive operation and control to minimize operating costs and ensure safe, steady-state operation.

Innovation Solution

An intra-day rolling scheduling method is established, including an objective function to minimize operating costs, with constraints for safe operation, solved using an interior point method to determine active and heating powers for each unit, thereby obtaining an optimal scheduling scheme for the integrated heat and electricity system.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If coupling components (combined heat and power units, heat pumps, circulating pumps) are integrated into the system, then energy efficiency and system benefits are improved, but control complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenergy efficiencyVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The scheduling problem is segmented into multiple time periods (divided into T time periods) and solved using a rolling optimization approach. This breaks down the complex intra-day scheduling into manageable time segments, reducing control complexity while maintaining energy efficiency benefits from coupling components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements dynamic rolling optimization that continuously updates scheduling decisions based on real-time system state and changing conditions. This dynamic approach adapts to the complex interactions of coupling components without requiring static, overly simplified control strategies

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Power

If comprehensive scheduling considering all coupling components is implemented, then operating costs are reduced, but calculation complexity and solution difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperating cost reductionVSAvoidcalculation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The comprehensive scheduling problem is divided into T time periods with rolling optimization, transforming a single complex optimization problem into multiple smaller, sequential problems. This segmentation reduces calculation complexity while still achieving comprehensive cost reduction by considering all coupling components in each time segment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes scheduling parameters dynamically through rolling optimization, adjusting power output and operational parameters of coupling components based on real-time conditions. This allows comprehensive cost optimization without being constrained by fixed, complex calculation frameworks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11306923B2Intra-day rolling scheduling method for integrated heat and electricity system
Publication Date: 2022.04.19 TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
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AI summary

An intra-day rolling scheduling method for an integrated heat and electricity system including: establishing an objective function for scheduling of the integrated heat and electricity system, the objective function aiming to make operating costs of the integrated heat and electricity system to be a minimum; establishing constraints for a steady-state safe operation of the integrated heat and electricity system; and solving the objective function based on the constraints by an interior point method, to obtain an active power and a heating power of each combined heat and power unit, an active power of each thermal power unit, a heating power of each heat pump, and an active power consumed by each circulating pump.